Basher Bains isn’t a nice man. Caged like an animal in State Prison, he cannot stand the Christmas music that is being piped into his cell over the prison’s P.A. system. If there is anything this con wants to hear on this Christmas, it isn’t “Silent Night.” That is until he hears a noise from …
Maus (1991) Writer: Art Spiegelman Artist: Art Spiegelman Published by Pantheon Books Comics originally got started in strip form. They were quick reads that, as often as not, had a slight overlapping narrative or at least a reoccurrence of characters. Found often in newspapers and magazines the limited medium left windows best situated for satirical, comical …
Last Day in Vietnam: A Memory Written By: Will Eisner Art & Cover by: Will Eisner Published by: Dark Horse Comics As Will Eisner understood them, comics are an art form which far exceed their generalization as pulp serials of boyhood fantasy. In fact, Eisner’s work itself takes the archetypes of these fantasies and tears …
Will Eisner did more than any other creator to alter the public’s perception of comics during the 1970s and 1980s. By coining, or, at the very least, popularizing, the terms “graphic novel” and “sequential art”, Eisner helped to lead the medium out of the wilderness of the subcultural trash heap and across the Red Sea …
Best of the Spirit (1940-1946) Writer/Artist: Will Eisner Publisher: DC Comics Even though he featured in comic strips rather than monthly comic books, The Spirit, created by a twenty-three year old Will Eisner during the Golden Age of Comics, became one of the most influential superheroes ever. Eisner could tell a complete mystery/adventure/action story in seven …